Paper Info
Title
Matrix factoring by fraction-free reduction.
Abstract
We consider exact matrix decomposition by Gauss-Bareiss reduction. We investigate two aspects of the process: common row and column factors and the influence of pivoting strategies. We identify two types of common factors: systematic and statistical. Systematic factors depend on the process, while statistical factors depend on the specific data. We show that existing fraction-free QR (Gram-Schmidt) algorithms create a common factor in the last column of Q. We relate the existence of row factors in LU decomposition to factors appearing in the Smith normal form of the matrix. For statistical factors, we identify mechanisms and give estimates of the frequency. Our conclusions are tested by experimental data. For pivoting strategies, we compare the sizes of output factors obtained by different strategies. We also comment on timing differences.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
arXiv: Symbolic Computation
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Experimental data,Matrix (mathematics),Matrix decomposition,Smith normal form,LU decomposition,Factoring,Mathematics
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1603.03565
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Johannes Middeke110.73
David J. Jeffrey21172132.12